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AMOEBA

16-year-old Choo joins the graduating year in an all-girls school and befriends 3 rebellious classmates. Together, the misfit schoolgirls try to form a gang in a country with no crime.

Director & Screenwriter: Siyou Tan
Producer: Samantha Lee, Fran Borgia
Country of Production: Singapore
Language: English, Mandarin
Total Budget: 461,000 USD
Production Company: Akanga Film Asia

Awards

OPEN SEA FUND Award 2021

Official Selection

Directing Fellow, Commercial Directors Diversity Program 2020 (Siyou Tan)
TorinoFilmLab 2022 ScriptLab
Hubert Bals Fund Script and Project Development Support Spring 2022
TAICCA/Focus Asia Co-production Award at udine FAR EAST FILM festival 2023

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Director Siyou TAN Siyou TAN is a Singaporean filmmaker and visual artist based in Los Angeles. Her 2019 short HELLO AHMA premiered at Toronto and Berlinale Generations. She has participated at Asian Film Academy and the Universal Directors Initi

Director
Siyou TAN

Siyou TAN is a Singaporean filmmaker and visual artist based in Los Angeles. Her 2019 short HELLO AHMA premiered at Toronto and Berlinale Generations. She has participated at Asian Film Academy and the Universal Directors Initiative. Her first fiction feature project AMOEBA received the Most Promising Project Award at the Singapore Southeast Asian Film Lab.

Producer Samantha Lee Samantha LEE is a Singaporean producer and visual journalist based between Singapore and NYC. She produced Siyou Tan's short HELLO AHMA (2019), which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and Berlinale Generation.

Producer
Samantha Lee

Samantha LEE is a Singaporean producer and visual journalist based between Singapore and NYC. She produced Siyou Tan's short HELLO AHMA (2019), which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and Berlinale Generation. Her background lies in documentary and short-form digital video. Her work has appeared in New York Magazine, Vox, and Bustle, among others.

Producer Fran BORGIA Fran BORGIA founded Akanga Film Asia in Singapore and produced K. Rajagopal's A YELLOW BIRD (2016, Cannes Critics’ Week), Boo Junfeng's SANDCASTLE (2010, Cannes Critics’ Week) and APPRENTICE (2016, Cannes Un Certain Regard)

Producer
Fran BORGIA

Fran BORGIA founded Akanga Film Asia in Singapore and produced K. Rajagopal's A YELLOW BIRD (2016, Cannes Critics’ Week), Boo Junfeng's SANDCASTLE (2010, Cannes Critics’ Week) and APPRENTICE (2016, Cannes Un Certain Regard) and Yeo Siew Huaʼs A LAND IMAGINED (2018, Locarno Golden Leopard), among others.